Aftersun (2022)
Figures
Locations
- The setting of the Turkish all-inclusive resort
Tropes
- Out-of-focus and grainy textures of the DV footage → Haptic Visuality
- Calum's unspoken depression and mysterious behaviors
- Adult Sophie's fragmented re-watching and re-imagining of the holiday footage → The Hand-Me-Down Haunting
- The strobe-lit rave scenes intercut with Calum and Sophie dancing
- The use of the song "Under Pressure" by Queen & David Bowie
- The digital artifacts, glitches, and white balance issues of the MiniDV footage → Hauntology
- Calum's performance of fatherhood
- The film's consistent focalization through Sophie's perspective
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